First article was pretty good stuff, although I really don't see InDesign and Quark as too far apart feature-wise. I suppose if I understood more about why opentype is supposed to be some sort of "god-send" then I'd "get it" a little more. Meanwhile, perfectly happy with Quark here and can't wait for 6
From the second link:
PDF creation technology has been incorporated into QuarkXPress 6, allowing users to output PDF files directly from QuarkXPress without having to purchase a license for third-party software.
That's a great feature actually, I'm glad. It's idiotic having to buy Acrobat just so I can distill PDF files. Let's face facts, nobody actually buys Acrobat for anything else. Besides, if it's so "evil" to make creating PDF's free and public domain, then I suppose Apple will have to answer a sh_tload for so many things built into OSX.
MikeM